2013 - plenum - martin steinert - how to tame a skunk works

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[email protected], prof Engineering Design and Innovation Department for Engineering Design and Materials

Radical Innovation - How to tame a Skunk Works?

martin @ trondheim,

Radisson Blu Royal Garden Hotel

PROSJEKT 2013, 17 October 2013

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LETTING engineering teams be creative

making innovation happen

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dancing with evolu0on

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TrollLABS

NTNU´s Living Lab Skunks works and Maker

Space for Radical Engineering Concept Creation at IVT

martin @ NTNU Trondheim, 8 October 2013

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NOT The Problem

Works well,

1) if the problem is defined (fixed requirements)

2) if the pathway is defined (fixed solution and technology choice)

3)  if market prices exist à See Aaron´s presentation earlier today J

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AND …

Skunk Works Lockheed Martin's

Advanced Development Programs (ADP)

Google X Labs

SpaceX

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center

Incorporated) formerly Xerox PARC

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Luckily we have comparable academic spaces

Stanford d.school and Center for Design Research

MIT Medialab

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and it never stops evolving a brief history

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Learning Lab with Wallenbergs of Sweden Learning Design & Technology with Education

Product Design Program with Fine Arts Department

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Design (MEMS) with EE

Robotic Systems Design with Computer Science and Aero

Team-Based Systems Design (310) with Corporate Partners

Manufacturing Systems Design with GSB and MS&E

Smart Product Design (218) with EE and CS

d.school with HPI and IDEO BioDesign with Biology & Medicine

Human Computer Interaction Design with CS

310.global!

Center for Design Research (CDR) with Industry Partners

Creative Design with John Arnold and GSB

venture design with India & Nigeria

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So what are we doing?

ENGINEERING DESIGN

“Solving” complex socio technical problems that create value

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keeping the user in perspective

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[email protected], prof Engineering Design and Innovation Department for Engineering Design and Materials vision! solution: UX! future!

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Now let me try to create some empathy?

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extreme example

me310 experiment need-find, conceive, build-test

re-invent the convertible for BMW with TUM in 2005

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project challenge improve the open air experience

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modeling what we know @ TUM

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critical function prototyping

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finding the source of noise @ Stanford

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airflow revisited

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airflow revisited again

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& again

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… one more try

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full scale prototyping

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dark horse prototyping

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airflow re-invented

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now we are getting very real

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iterate

Prototype and iterate … LEARN FAST

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…iterate…

FASTER !!!

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OK … here we go …

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getting real on the open road

from concept to reality

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fluid dynamics re-visited

re-circulating bad-air is eliminated by the good-air jet stream

base case OpenRoad

re-circulation creates bad-air

in the cabin

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validating airspeed measurement

but watch her hair base case airspeed OpenRoad airspeed

Bad Wind Good Wind Bad Wind Good Wind

6.3 m/s

1.9 m/s

7 m/s

1.6 m/s

1.4 m/s

2.3 m/s

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Conclusion

a better convertible, problem eliminated

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So how are we doing it?

Key are rapid and rough prototyping and continuous learning based on test feedback. Failure is not only an option, it is a must! (in the early phases ;) We break our prototypes and test user experiences in order to find the limits of the problem and solution spaces

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d.mindsets show don´t tell

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d.mindsets craft clarity

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d.mindsets be mindful of your process

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d.mindsets radical collaboration

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d.mindsets bias towards action

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d.mindsets embrace experimentation

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d.mindsets focus onto human values

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it is always about people

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building “T” people and

“T” people teams

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in the moment, should i be an

“I” shaped

or “T”

shaped person?

(Suzuki’2011)

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“I” shaped by knowledge

in depth

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“T” shaped by

breadth in behavior

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Design Thinking Behavior

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(Tang J. 1989)

(Lande M. 2010)

We need various knowledge bases … people ideation is based on physical communication … co-location

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tangible communication

prototype storming

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accelerated learning

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defying gravity

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What about process?

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Well beyond Waterfall model: Agile, Dynamic, Reflective

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Prototype Build

Needfinding and Benchmarking

Understand the users, design space

(re)Define the Problem

Design never ends

Test Learn

Bodystorming Ideate

Stanford-‐IDEO like design process

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Prototype Build

Needfinding and Benchmarking

Understand the users, design space

(re)Define the Problem

Design never ends

Test Learn

Bodystorming Ideate

Stanford-‐IDEO like design process

… IN REALITY

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crea?ng ambiguity

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Right … what about our problem Scope/Outcome Since we don´t know in the beginning what we will create (we are aiming after all for a radical or transformative innovation) we cannot predefine the Scope.

Costs

Similarly, we don´t know what we will do so we

don´t know what we will spend, budgets are like

battle plans, screwed. AND a running real time

accounting is key. PS we need less money

than you think in the early phases

Time Is key. This variable we can control. Our deadlines and

prototype demonstrations are the framework that hold our projects together. Based on each Prototype learning, we reassess and re aim. Uncertainty decreases over time.

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Engineering Design Processes

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incremental engineering design process – adaptive in style

radical engineering design process – innovative in style

fixed target design, specifications and requirements based

alternative design I, evolving specifications and requirements

alternative design X, evolving specifications and requirements

Steinert 2011

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divergence phase

convergence phase

design build

test

concept generation concept

screening concept scoring concept testing

Steinert 2011

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Very rough guidelines

Separate philosophy, perspective tools and approaches between the three phases: 1) Problem focus 2) Solution focus 3) Implementation focus For very radical projects, give each phase roughly a third of the time. If possible divide into subprojects shorter than 1 year, 6 month are good.

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Engineering Design Processes Over time (rough guide three equal long phases) •  Uncertainty decreases, thus Costs and Outcome certainty

increases •  Gradual shifting from

i) design thinking over ii) SCRUM like agile methods to iii) engineering project management

What is needed:

An Agile Lean Project Management, embedded in the midst of the Trolls ;)

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LETTING engineering teams be creative

making innovation happen

and keep a close eye on them from within not prescript, budget and control but

accompany and obtain real time awareness

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So let’s go hunting for the next BIG IDEA

(Leifer, Steinert)

Iteration and learning is key

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one more analogy, jazz (loft session)

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